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Saturn: The Ringed Planet

When seen through a
telescope,
Saturn is one of the most beautiful
sights in the night sky. It looks like a big ball inside of
rings.

Saturn is a very large
gas
planet which spins very rapidly on its
axis. It
spins so fast that it flattens out the top and the bottom of the planet.
The fast spin also causes Saturn to
bulge
at its equator. Saturn's
atmosphere
has winds which can blow at over 1800
kilometers
per hour! The
white spots on Saturn are believed to be powerful storms. Saturn is
surrounded by over 1000 rings made of ice and dust. Some of the rings are
very thin and some are very thick. The size of the
particles
in the rings range from pebble-size to house-size. Scientists believe that
the particles came from the destruction of moons circling the planet. As
comets and
meteorites
smashed the moons, Saturn's
gravitational pull
shaped the particles into rings. Saturn has at least 53 moons. Some of
these moons orbit
the planet within the rings, creating
gaps in the
rings.

A Question

True or False

The rings around Saturn contain pieces of ice which are all the size of
a baseball.